I'm currently on Topamax. I've started sleeping about 18 hours a day and feel like shit. I'm still getting migraines about 4 days a week. Every preventive pill I try, it works for a few months tops. Then it is back to daily migraines. I called my specialist today to tell him about the Topamax.He told me the regular medications aren't working. He ( Read more... )

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So, nutshell: I have had chronic migraines for years, tried all sorts of drug therapies, been to all sorts of doctors: nothing really helps. Most recently, I've been taking IM toradol injections, but I've taken two this week and the migraine keeps coming back. It's going on two weeks. I don't have insurance, and I don't have a doctor in this ( Read more... )

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Figured it was time I asked for help ( Read more... )

I have suffered from headaches for most of my life, though over the past two-three years they've gotten much worse. I now have headaches everyday, it's rare for me to not have one. For awhile things like Excedrin would work, and I could manage. But around the beginning of this year everything stopped working ( Read more... )

Have any of you who either live with a constant migraine or those who have chronic migraines tried taking a dopamine agonist of any variety as a prophylaxis ( Read more... )

I have chronic migraines and literally at least one migraine a day. I think I'm lucky as my migraines started out as one that would stay for at least a week or two but sometimes up to a month. The brief break between migraines allows me to function better. Anyway- I'm currently 28 weeks pregnant and I have had to stop the anti-depressant Zoloft ( Read more... )

There must be standardized definitions for these terms somewhere, but I'm not sure what words to use when properly speaking about my headaches ( Read more... )

So I had my final outtake for the ONS study... I have 4 annual follow-up appts, but I got to get rid of that *damn* PDA headache diary. No more 8 o'clock BEEP BEEP BEEP crap ( Read more... )